CVE-2017-8395

The Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid write of size 8 because of missing a malloc return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the bfdgenericgetsectioncontents function. This vulnerability causes...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8393

The Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a global buffer over-read error because of an assumption made by code that runs for objcopy and strip, that SHTREL/SHRRELA sections are always named starting with a .rel/.rela prefix. This...

CVE-2017-8393

The Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to a global buffer over-read error because of an assumption made by code that runs for objcopy and strip, that SHTREL/SHRRELA sections are always named starting with a .rel/.rela prefix. This...